Cushioning device for vehicles.



A. CARPENTER & C. C. KISSELL.

CUSHIONING DEVICE FOB VEHICLES.

APPLICATION FILED 00T.30, 1907.

Patented NOV. 24, 1908.

me/n fore:

Wi h1 @one L www omen LEXaNDERcAarENTEieAun'eniiiuinsc. K I'ssE'LL, or riiinrnir,omo.-.v

rii'lu'rnauandgCnaniissC. Kissing., citizens of the United States, residingr at Findlay, in

" the county of` Hancock and State of Ohio, have invented' a new a-nd useful Gushioning Device for Vehicles, otwhich the following.

is. a specification.

'- This invention relates to cushioning -deup the j vibrations .Vehi'cle'and :thus ad vices .foi -vehicles and it is designed'to take produced by a moving' tothe comfort o 'r' persons'occuljiying` the vehicle,

Anoche-y QbJect is to provide pneumatic the spi-ings and axle of a vehicle for absorbmeans c lesignedto' be' interposed between inol Yibratio'ns, 'said means constituting an t etlicientsubstitute for pneumatic tires.-

A still further object. is to provide a enshinning device of this character all parts of whichai'e easily accessible and can be readily repaired and replaced.

With .theseand other objeetsin View the invention consistsjof certain novel features of constructlon: and combinati-ons ofparts which-" ivill be hereinafter more fully described and 'pointed out in the claims.

-In the accompanyinv drawings -is shown the-prefe'ircdtorm of the. invention.

In said drawings: Figure 1 is a side eleva- .tioirof a cushion embodying thepresent improvements. Fig. 2 is. a section there throuvh. Fili'. 3 .is a detail View of a oris P tion of the top plate of'thecushion. Fig. 4.

is a plan View of the base plate thereof.

Referring tothe figures by characters of reference. 1 designatesan axle of any suitable construction seated within .a socket 2- formed. within the. apex of a. triangular extension 3 arranged on if'ic lower faceo a circular. base plate 4. lf dts-5 extend downward from the base plate and engage the end portions of clips 6 which extend under the axle andA are designcdto hold it Vwithin the' socket 2.

A boss 7 extends upward from the center of the base plate and the socket or and. constituting a'seat tor a spring 13 -de' signed' to bel secured in place by means'tof f' .oUfsnI'oNinG DEVICE ron vniucrins.

speci'feaamoriietters Paient. Patented Nw.l 24, 1908. l appiicaaoniinaomiiefso,1907.. serial Naasa'ss'z;

from theI plates 1I at oppositcsides of lthe rib. A cylindricalsteni 16 ext-ends downward from the center of the plate 11 and has is slightly less than the smallest dimension of the throat. 10. This extension has an oblong head 18 at its free end'so proportioned as to slip readily through the throat 10 when registering therewith but which is designed the boss-7.` As'circular flexible tube 19 surrounds the 'boss 7 and is designed to,be 1n# theplatcs t and 11-,and'serves to spread them apartaiid to-hold head 18 in contact-- with webslgas shown in Fig. 2.

and when they are thus located all joltsor pneumatic cushion 19, this absorption being movement toward each other because of the space normally formed between head 18'and the lower end'of opening S. Shouldit be 'desired to .separate the two plates-1 and 11 forth@ purpose of repairing or replacing any of the paitsit is merely necessary to turn one plate or the other until the head 18 16 'can bc readily withdrawn from the boss 7. A cushion such as herein described riages, etc.- and when used upon an automobile or thelike it can be employed as a substitute for pneumatic tires because if wheels are employed having cushion or vsolid tires having a reduced portion .inovably mounted vibrations produced as a result of the more nient ot' the 'vehicle will be absorbed bythepeiniissible in view of the fact that the two plates -1 and 1l are capable of a limited.

`clips 14 engaging'V bolts 15 which upstand I a reduced extension' 17 the diameter of which when the stem 17 is given a one-quarter turn', to assume a position beneath the webs 9 and prevent the-withdrawalzof stein 16- from" tia ted through a yalved stem 20 and when. so intiated contacts with the adjoining. faces of -It is to beV understood that two orinore' of. the cushioning devices herein described are to be arranged upon each axle of a vehicle.

registers with the throat 10 whereupon stem can be. used in connection with vehicles of various forms such as railway cars, carthe vibrations produced will all be-fully abbetween the Webs, a head upon said reduced portion and insertible bet-Ween and under the Webs,said'head and websl cooperating to prevent separation of the members When in a predetermined relation, and-a cushioning device interposed between the members.

2. A vehicle spring comprising a lovver member having a depending integral axle engaging extension, means carried by said member for binding the. extension upon an axle, a central boss upon said member and having a socket extending thereinto, oppositely disposed spaced retaining Webs within thesocket, an upper member, a central stem extending therefrom and movably mounted duced portion movably mounted between the Webs, a head upon'said reduced portion and l insertible' between and under the Webs, and a v cushioning device` interposed between the members and surrounding the boss, said boss' constituting a centering device therefor.

' In testimony that we claim the foregoing as our own, We have hereto aiixed our signatures in the presence of two witnesses. i

ALEXANDER CARPENTER. CHARLES C. KISSELL.v i Witnesses:

MARION G. FOSTER, JAMES D. BARNETL 

